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| DATE | 2016-12-12 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] islam is your friend VI
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Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
> 'Honor Killings' Are A Global Problem
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[...]
> While there may be more honor killings in the Middle East and
> Southeast Asia than in other parts of the world, there is no single
> ethnic, cultural or religious indicator of honor-based violence,
> reports the Honor Based Violence Awareness Network, a digital resource
> center that studies honor killings.
So, why does noted person-who-seldom-really-reads-things Ruben Safir
think this topic is anything like a Muslim monopoly?
He's never heard of Shinto, Hindu, or Christian 'honor' killings?
But anyway, I'm glad Ruben's so extremely concerned about killings of
innocents for reasons of depraved and violent cultural traditions --
and trust in his good work to prevent it he'll also have some time for
(1) dowry killings (mostly in South Asia), (2) gang-related killings of
women as revenge (killings of female members of rival gang members'
families - primarily, but not only, in Latin America), (3) witchcraft
accusation killings (Africa, Oceania), (4) "crimes of passion" in Latin
America (which are sometimes treated extremely leniently). (5) killing
of women for lack of dowry in Indian Hindu subcultures.
The victims of those utterly dwarf those of 'honor' killings, so I
expect Ruben will give them proportionate attention in his newfound zeal
to root out wrongful deaths (of anyone not named Amadou Diallo).
The cited authority, Honor Based Violence Awareness Network, publishes a
FAQ:
http://hbv-awareness.com/faq/#fourteen
Q: Are "honour" killings and HBV [honor-based violence] related to
religion?
A There is little scriptural support for honour killings in any
major religion, and it has been roundly condemned by several high
status religious leaders. This attitude, however, does not necessarily
influence all members of a religion, who tend to view all aspects of
their lifestyle and culture as being related to their faith, even
where they stand in contravention of "official" religion.
So, basically you're talking about horrifical cultural practices, such
that the problem is the cultural roots of the mindset, not the religion.
Take all the cities and towns in India, Pakistan, Middle-Eastern
countries, Japan, Italy, and Greece that _most_ indulge 'honor' killings
(statistically) and force all residents to become Buddhists -- and
they'll still remain locations of 'honor' murders, because the problem
wasn't the religion; it was the cultural traditions transmitted
alongside the religions.
--
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Rick Moen than think your way into a new way of acting."
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> Friends and family carry Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel
> Baloch's body at her funeral.
> SS Mirza/AFP/Getty Images
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> Updated July 20, 4:42 p.m. ET. On Wednesday, Pakistan's ruling party
> announced it plans to pass long-delayed legislation against honor
> killings within weeks.
> Slain Pakistani Social Media Star Remembered As Daring Feminist Rebel
> July 18, 2016
> Pakistani Social Media Star Strangled In Apparent 'Honor' Killing
> The Two-Way
> Pakistani Social Media Star Strangled In Apparent 'Honor' Killing
>
> Our original post continues:
>
> This past Friday, Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch was
> murdered in an apparent "honor killing." Her brother Waseem Azeem
> admitted that he strangled her to death because he disapproved of her
> provocative social media presence in the socially conservative country.
>
> The murder has brought attention to the issue of honor killings in
> Pakistan, where an estimated 1,000 cases a year occur. But it's a global
> concern as well. Honor killings happen when family members murder a
> daughter, sister, mother or wife because they believe she has brought
> shame to the family. The reasons range from refusing an arranged
> marriage to owning a cellphone or even being a victim of rape.
>
> "It's all just related to the idea that women are property, and you can
> do what you like with your property," says Heather Barr, senior
> researcher for women's rights at Human Rights Watch, in a Skype
> interview from Kandahar, Afghanistan.
>
> The victims tend to be young. A survey of 214 female victims in 2010,
> published in Middle East Quarterly, found that the average age was 23
> years old. "Honor killings happen when a person is transitioning into
> adulthood and trying to express their own views," she says. While the
> vast majority are female, there are a small number of male victims —
> typically a husband, boyfriend or fiancé whom the family disapproves of.
> She Survived An 'Honor Killing': Oscar-Winning Documentary Airs Tonight
> Goats and Soda
> She Survived An 'Honor Killing': Oscar-Winning Documentary Airs Tonight
>
> Part of the reason why the phenomenon continues is because it often goes
> unpunished. In 2014, the human rights NGO International Humanist and
> Ethical Union, which has representation at the U.N., submitted a
> statement to the General Assembly noting that honor-related crimes are
> rarely investigated, and the laws against them are rarely enforced in
> many countries.
>
> "Most of these cases will always be invisible," says Barr. "Covered up
> and reported as suicides or disappearances."
>
> If enforced, the sentences to the perpetrators are far less strict than
> for equally violent crimes — and pardons can be easily arranged. In
> Pakistan, for example, the simple act of forgiveness can absolve the
> crime. In the Oscar-winning documentary film A Girl In The River: The
> Price Of Forgiveness, Saba, 18, was pressured into forgiving her uncle
> and father, who shot her and threw her in the river for secretly
> eloping. As a result, they were both released from prison.
>
> The other reason is society's acceptance of discrimination against
> women. In a 2013 Cambridge University survey of 850 teenagers in Jordan,
> a third believed that honor killings were "morally right." Support for
> honor killing is far more likely among adolescent boys who have not
> spent much time in school, according to the report. And in a 2009 survey
> from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 68 percent of young
> Iraqi men believed that killing a girl for dishonoring the family was
> justifiable.
>
> An estimated 5,000 honor killings are committed every year, mostly in
> Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities, according to a 2000 report from the
> UNFPA — the most recent compilation of data. But the number could in
> fact be far higher. Barr says the killings are frequently not reported
> to authorities by the victims' families.
>
> While there may be more honor killings in the Middle East and Southeast
> Asia than in other parts of the world, there is no single ethnic,
> cultural or religious indicator of honor-based violence, reports the
> Honor Based Violence Awareness Network, a digital resource center that
> studies honor killings.
>
> "It goes across cultural norms," says Christa Stewart, sexual violence
> program manager at Equality Now, a women's and girls' rights
> organization. "It's aimed at any woman who transgresses in a societal
> framework — who asserts her own desire to marry on her own volition, not
> have a marriage imposed upon her or chooses education." In the case of
> Baloch, she says, her "transgression" was clear: posting social media
> posts that defied cultural norms.
>
> Such acts of violence take place in the Western world, too. According to
> research commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice in May 2015, an
> estimated 23 to 27 honor killings occur in the U.S. per year, 13 in the
> Netherlands and 10 to 12 in the U.K.
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> Qandeel Baloch at a press conference in Lahore, Pakistan, in June.
> M Jameel/AP
>
> In 2010, for example, Faleh Almaleki, an Iraqi immigrant living in
> Phoenix, Ariz., ran over his 20-year-old daughter, Noor, with his Jeep.
> She was becoming too "Westernized," he told the police, and brought him
> dishonor by leaving an arranged marriage to an older cousin in Iraq. She
> died in the hospital two weeks later; in 2011, the father was sentenced
> to 34 years in prison.
>
> "The law is paramount to changing dynamics for women," says Stewart. "It
> shows there is equality in how women are viewed — that they're not
> expendable or controllable."
>
> The laws that allow families to get away with it are slowly changing. In
> 2009, Syria abolished a law that waived punishment for men who kill
> female family members in the name of honor and replaced it with a
> minimum two-year sentence. Critics at Human Rights Watch said in a
> statement that "two years is better than nothing, but is hardly enough
> for murder." In 2011, Lebanon repealed a criminal code provision that
> permitted short sentences for family members found guilty or convicted
> of an "honor crime." And on Wednesday, the Pakistani government, facing
> mounting pressure in the wake of Baloch's murder, has announced that it
> plans on passing long-delayed legislation against honor killings within
> weeks. The law would close a loophole that allows family members to
> pardon a killer.
>
> One of the most misunderstood aspects of honor killings, says Barr of
> Human Rights Watch, is confusing them with crimes committed in flagrante
> delicto: "the idea that you walk in on your wife having sex with the
> next door neighbor, and then kill them," she says. In some countries,
> you would get a reduced sentence because you were so angry that you
> weren't able to control your behavior, she continues. "But this is not
> the way honor killings usually work."
>
> Often, these murders are plotted with great deliberation, she explains.
> Barr points to Baloch's brother Azeem as an example. In his confession
> video, he said he planned the murder after she made headlines for
> posting selfies on her Instagram account with a senior member of the
> clergy four weeks ago. "It wasn't a shocking moment where the killer
> wasn't able to control his emotions," she says. "It sounds like he
> thought about it very carefully."
>
> And some researchers believe the label for these acts is part of the
> problem. "We shouldn't use the term 'honor killings' at all," she says.
> "It's just an excuse for murder."
>
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